Lohengrin

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Hero of a German 13th-century poem; son of Parzival, and a Knight of the Grail; carried by a swan to Brabant he delivered and married the Princess Elsa; subsequently returning from war against the Saracens, she asked him of his origin; he told her, and was at once carried back again by the swan. Wagner adapted the story in his opera "Lohengrin."

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

in British fable, was the famous guard and protector of the sacred Graal. He saved Elsa, the princess of Brabant, from a magician, by coming to her as a swan. She married the valiant knight, but on condition that she would not inquire as to his ancestry. Finally she asked about this, and Lohengrin fled on his swan back to the sacred Graal.